“Well?” he said.
She sank down in a chair.
“Please go away.”
At his least movement towards her she sprang up, white and trembling, but calm of voice.
“No.... I can’t bear it.... And please never come back—never.”
“But you said——”
“I said nothing.”
“No—not said, but——”
“Oh!” she exclaimed quickly; “I may have been wrong outwardly. But don’t blame me for having deceived you. You were never deceived.”
He smiled at her as at a child momentarily in a foolish mood, and went out of the room. On the stairs he met Hugh.